Saturday, February 16, 2013

Diana West's written about another bad choice Obama's made for a political position, that being John Brennan, who's been picked as a candidate for managing the CIA:

More than any other Obama administration official, Brennan has openly cultivated groups in this country that I describe, with good reason, as being of the jihadist persuasion. Simultaneously, Brennan misinforms or dissembles about the nature of jihad itself. How can such a man helm America’s premier intelligence institution, which, at least ostensibly, is engaged in thwarting jihad?

Consider Brennan’s interactions with the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Despite evidence presented (and later upheld) in federal court during the landmark 2008 Holy Land Foundation trial, which established ISNA as a Muslim Brotherhood organization and financial supporter of the terrorist organization Hamas (a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood), Brennan has continued to meet with ISNA officials and participate in ISNA events.

At ISNA’s annual conference in 2009, for example, Brennan delivered the keynote address. In 2010, Brennan spoke at a “town hall” with ISNA president Ingrid Mattson. As former FBI agent John Guandolo wrote recently in a paper he shared with me, Brennan continues to grant ISNA leaders access to senior government officials and support their appointments to key intelligence positions. (Guandolo and I are among the 19 co-authors of “Shariah: The Threat to America.”)

“The current president of ISNA, Imam Mohamed Magid, sits on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which reports directly to (Homeland) Secretary (Janet) Napolitano,” Guandolo writes. “With the support of John Brennan, Imam Magid works with the National Security Council, which has publicly applauded this Hamas supporter.”

Guandolo was referring to praise heaped on Magid in 2011 by then-deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough. McDonough is now Obama’s chief of staff.

If this all sounds surreal, welcome to our world. Here, the leader of a group that the U.S. government has designated a conspirator to promote and finance Islamic terrorism is tapped to advise the same government on how to defuse Islamic terrorism – or, rather, what the government prefers to call “extremism.”

Brennan most definitely would be a very poor choice for running an agency that's needed for dealing with the menace of Islamofascism. The Republicans have warned that they'll try to block Brennan's appointment, and I hope they can. They've already blocked the appointment of Hagel for defense secretary. Brennan, like Hagel, is a bad choice for a prominent position, and it'd be best that the GOP oppose his nomination as well.

Bulgarian security forces on Friday raided the temporary residences of a visiting Hamas delegation in Sofia, and then expelled the officials from the country, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.

The Hamas delegation arrived in Bulgaria on Wednesday to present the “Palestinian narrative and expose the false Israeli narrative on the Palestinians and Hamas.” The visit was the first of its kind by Hamas officials to a member of the EU. [...]

Bulgaria later said that it had expelled the Hamas delegation because the terrorists threatened national security, according to Sofia News Agency.

"The four Palestinians expelled from Bulgaria posed a serious threat for national security," Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security said, adding that they had acted in accordance with Article 42 of Bulgaria's Foreigners Act, which allows for the expulsion of foreigners if they pose a threat to public order or national security.

They were fully justified in banishing them based on that concern too. The Hamas delegation shouldn't even have been allowed into the country in the first place, since all they were planning on doing was hatemongering, and there's every chance they'd do it against the Bulgarians as well. That's what the Hamas stands for, just like every other Islamofascist.

Tens of thousands of Americans who cannot get health insurance because of preexisting medical problems will be blocked from a program designed to help them because funding is running low.

Obama administration officials said Friday that the state-based “high-risk pools” set up under the 2010 health-care law will be closed to new applicants as soon as Saturday [February 16] and no later than March 2, depending on the state....

A delay in applying to a high-risk pool has been inevitable for some:

[T]he pools are open only to people who have gone without insurance for at least six months.

One of my dearest friends in my small circle of friends lost his health insurance (employer based) on January 1. The health insurance company stated that federal regulations precluded the company's viability to operate, so the company went under.

The end result for my friend: after decades of having health insurance coverage, he now is forced to go without any coverage for six months so as to be eligible for a high-risk pool.

“If [Lapid] continues what he is doing, God forbid, he has to know his career in the Jewish world is simply over,” Amrami said in the clip. “He will no longer be a part of the Jewish people. There will be no difference between him and an animal. If someone touches someone’s eye, they respond immediately and protect themselves.”

Yesh Atid responded that “It is unfortunate that there are those who are trying to drag down the legitimate dispute over how to equalize the burden of service to threats that can lead to people getting hurt.”

Lapid said he was not worried about such threats and he would “continue to lead the effort to equalize the burden of service, knowing that the citizens of the country must obey the law.”

Shas officials said Amrami was not connected to the party in any way. Amrami has made extremist statements in the past about religious Zionists.

This was not the first time a rabbi attacked Lapid. Last Saturday night Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef called Lapid contemptible and warned against including him in the coalition.

I think Lapid's party most definitely should file a complaint against Amrami for hatemongering just because he despises Yesh Atid's insistence that all Haredis share the same burdens of work and army service as the rest of the population. In fact, they could make an even better point of using cases like these as part of an informative advertising campaign on television, to let people know just what kind of representatives are running amok in the Haredi community. And not just during election campaigns. At all times. People have a right to know.

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid opposes any division of Jerusalem as part of negotiations with the Palestinians, he said on Tuesday evening.

“Ehud Olmert’s government went too far” in its talks with the Palestinians, Lapid said. “It was wrong when it began discussing issues that bore waiting on, such as Jerusalem and the right of return. I oppose any withdrawal in Jerusalem, which isn’t only a place, but an idea as well.”

And this also puts the lie to the whole notion that most people voted for his party because they support left-wing politics at all costs. It also shows that the public has moved on from obsession with the pseudo-peace process. Obviously, this doesn't mean he's perfect, but this in itself is a step in the right direction and a credible position.

The Jerusalem Post reports more about Steve Emerson's new documentary, "Jihad in America: the Grand Deception", which tells how the Muslim Brotherhood's been operating in America, and also the collaborators and apologists who've more than willingly worked with them to advance their autocratic goals.

THE REAL REASON NANNY BLOOMBERG AND THE REST OF THE UPPER-CALLS CHIC BOSSERATI AND SELF-ANOINTED GUARDIANS OF MOTHER EARTH AND "NANNIES TO THE PROLES" WANT TO BAN STYROFOAM IS THAT THEY SEE IT AS "LOWER CLASS".

THECHIC BOSSERATI, LIKE BLOOMBERG, AND THEIR CHIC DEGENERATI ALLIES IN HOLLYWOOD AND THEIR CHIC PROPAGANDERATIIN THE MEDIA LOOK DOWN ON STYROFOAM THE WAY THEY LOOK DOWN ON FAST-FOOD, STATION WAGONS, AND DOMESTIC BEER. AND BELIEVERS'N CHURCH-GOERS.

AND THIS EGOCENTRIC SNOBBERY OF THE CHIC BOSSERATI, LIKE BLOOMBERG, AND THEIR CHIC DEGENERATI ALLIES IN HOLLYWOOD AND THEIR CHIC PROPAGANDERATI IN THE MEDIA IS WHY THEY THINK THEY KNOW BETTER HOW TO RUN OUR LIVES THAN WE DO.

IF ELITES COULD RUN THINGS BETTER THAN FREE PEOPLE IN A FREE-MARKET, THEN RED CHINA, THE USSR, CUBA, ZIMABWE AND NORTH KOREA WOULD BE PARADISES - AND NOT HELL-HOLES.THE ELITISM OF BLOOMBERG AND HIS ILK IS A TURD THAT NEEDS TO BE FLUSHED DOWN THE CRAPHOLE OF HISTORY.

Fewer Israeli professors are publishing anti-Israeli articles in foreign journals, according to a study conducted by Israeli Academia Monitor. According to Israeli Academia Monitor editor Dana Barnett, who spoke to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday, the reason for the decline is simple: far-left professors now know that what they say abroad will be publicized at home as well.

“A lecturer who publishes an anti-Israel article in Australia needs to know that it will be read here, too,” Barnett explained. “We translate the articles and publish criticism.”

“We show those lecturers’ true colors,” she added. “We reveal their double standards, their anti-Israel worldview and their lies.”

There has been a significant reduction in anti-Israel activism among university staff since the group began its work in 2004, she said. Then, she said, “there were petitions against Israel signed by hundreds of Israeli lecturers. The Arab world used those petitions.”

But now, there's far fewer, and hopefully, in the next decade, they'll be gone altogether. This is the great thing about having watchdog groups around to take note of what anti-Israelists are spewing.

... The precise circumstances surrounding the incident are unclear. Some reports said that Mr Pistorius may have mistaken his girlfriend for an intruder. But police said they were "surprised" to hear reports that the deceased had been mistaken for a burglar.

They added that there had been previous incidents at the address and described them as "allegations of a domestic nature".

AWFUL. THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THAT HOME SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN IGNORED AS IT WAS.

(ASIDE: PISTORIUS APPARENTLY OWNED A LICENSED GUN - A DIFFICULT FEAT IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE GUN WAS JUST THE TOOL OF HIS EVIL INCLINATION. HE COULD HAVE USED A KNIFE OR HIS HANDS.)

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

BBC: Italy's former intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the rendition of a terror suspect. The court in Milan also sentenced his former deputy Marco Mancini to nine years in jail over the 2003 kidnapping. Italy's courts have already convicted in absentia 22 CIA agents over the same case. The abducted Egyptian cleric said he was flown to Egypt and tortured.

THEY WERE ACTING TO SAVE THE WEST FROM ISLAMO-TERRORISM, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY GET?

THEY SHOULD GET MEDALS!

ISLAMO-TERRORISM AND GLOBAL JIHAD IS VERY REAL.

WE HAVE TO FIGHT BACK - AND, IF WE WANT TO WIN, THEN WE SHOULD USE EVERY WEAPON WE HAVE... INCLUDING RENDITION.

NOTE:

THIS STORY OUT OF SE ASIA - FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES - FURTHER PROVES THE VERY REAL GLOBAL THREAT CIVILIZED PEOPLES FACE:

MORE KILLED HAVE BEEN KILLED THERE BY ISLAMO-TERRORISTS THAN THE IDF HAS KILLED IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT OVER THE SAME PERIOD.

IF WE TIE THE HANDS OF OUR SENIOR DEFENSE AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS - AND, BY PROSECUTING THEM AND CRIMINALIZING NATIONAL SECURITY MEASURES - THEREBY MAKE THEM AFRAID TO DO WHATEVER THEY HAVE TO TO ENSURE OUR SAFETY AND ENSURE THAT WE DEFEAT THE ISLAMO-TERRORISTS, THEN WE WILL SURELY LOSE OUR BEST PEOPLE AND LOSE THE WAR.

Ben Shapiro at Big Government writes about how the Jewish members of the Democratic party on Capitol Hill are supporting anti-Israel Chuck Hagel for the post of defense secretary, including a so-called pro-Israel member like Chuck Schumer. Surely they cannot be pro-Israel themselves, and didn't deserve the backing of the Jewish community.

"In the extreme persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit [as bishop] Peter the Roman, who will pasture his sheep in many tribulations: and when these things are finished, the city of seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people. The End."

THEREFORE, THE ELECTION OF A MAN NAMED PETER TO THE PAPACY (OR A MAN WHO WILL TAKE THE NAME POPE PETER) MAY VERY WELL PORTEND THE DESTRUCTION OF ROME, THE END OF THE RC CHURCH AND, PERHAPS, EVEN THE END-TIMES.

THE FRONT-RUNNER IS COINCIDENTALLY CARDINAL PETER TURKSON AND HIS ELECTION WOULD FULFILL THE PROPHECY.

Barclays announced on Tuesday that it would eliminate 3,700 jobs and close several business units, as it reported a big loss in the fourth quarter of 2012. The major restructuring of the bank’s operations comes after a series of scandals at the bank, including the manipulation of benchmark interest rates, which led to the resignation of the firm’s former chief executive, Robert E. Diamond Jr. Barclays, based in London, posted a net loss of £835 million ($1.3 billion) in the last three months of 2012, compared with a profit of £356 million in the period a year earlier.

THIS IS JUST MORE PROOF THAT THINGS AIN'T AS GOOD AS OBAMA, VON ROMPUY, THE IMF AND THE MEDIA WANT YOU TO BELIEVE.

When Vladimir Putin says the U.S. is endangering the global economy by abusing its dollar monopoly, he’s not just talking. He’s betting on it.Not only has Putin made Russia the world’s largest oil producer, he’s also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade, a quarter more than runner-up China, according to IMF data compiled by Bloomberg. The added gold is also almost triple the weight of the Statue of Liberty.“The more gold a country has, the more sovereignty it will have if there’s a cataclysm with the dollar, the euro, the pound or any other reserve currency,” Evgeny Fedorov, a lawmaker for Putin’s United Russia party in the lower house of parliament, said in a telephone interview in Moscow.Gold, coveted by Russian rulers including Tsar Nicholas II and the Bolshevik leader whose forces assassinated him, Vladimir Lenin, has soared almost 400 percent in the period of Putin’s purchases. Central banks around the world have printed money to escape the global financial crisis, sapping investor appetite for dollars and euros and setting off a scramble for safety.

French Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Sunday that the French government will be taking steps in the coming days to deport several radical Muslim clerics from the country in an effort to counter the rising tide of radical Islam and prevalent threat of “global jihadism.”

"Many radical preachers of foreign origin will be deported in the coming days." Valls said, addressing an international conference in Brussels, as reported by the French Le Nouvel Observateur.

“I do not confuse this radical Islam with Islam as practiced in France generally,” he said, “but there is a religious environment, there are groups who adhere to Salafism, which is a political process, which quite simply aims to monopolize, at the same time, associations and the educational process and which has taken a firm grip in the minds of many families.”

His remarks come shortly after the assassination of Tunisian opposition leader Choukri Belaid, an outspoken critic of the country’s Islamist government.

“We will expel all these imams, these preachers, these foreigners who prey on women, hold beliefs contrary to our values and who advocate the need to fight France. From this standpoint, there is a need to be extremely resolute, and I will be,” Valls asserted.

“There is an Islamic fascism rising every­where, but this obscurantism must, of course, be condemned because it denies the democracy for which the Libyan, Tunisian and Egyptian people have fought,” Valls told Europe 1 radio.

A shame he's trying to make differentiations between "radical" and "general" when there's no real difference, but if they're getting rid of the monstrous inciters, that's a good thing. It's not a good thing, however, that he's ignoring what the "Arab spring" ended up becoming, most notably in Egypt.

(CNSNews.com) - Under the broad banner of "health," the federal government not only is telling Americans what to eat, it's also telling us to make our homes safer.

This week, the Obama administration released a "bold new vision for addressing the nation's health and economic burdens caused by preventable hazards associated with the home."

The project has a name: "Advancing Healthy Housing: A Strategy for Action."...

About so-called electrical deficiencies....

This old house (the family homestead) doesn't come up to the county's electrical code. I've had my house inspected by more than one independent electrician. According to these electricians, this house is perfectly safe!

If I had to bring this house up to county code, the entire house would have to be demolished because of the brick-and-plaster structure and the hot-water radiator heat.

So far, the county building-code Nazis allow my husband and me to live here. The county does, however, forbid our renting the house to any tenant but family.

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I have to wonder if "healthy housing" will put a limit on the square footage allowed per occupant. It's not "healthy" for the environment for a couple to own and dwell in "too much square footage," right?